One of the main things we learned as a band in those days was not to be the headliner.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It was kind of fun being the headliners.
Not only was it enough to be a cover band, it was perhaps the highest calling. After all, if you could play music recorded by others, stay true to the original, and still add fire and flare, why not?
We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be like any of the other bands.
It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.
We were lumped into the Lite Metal radio bands.
I don't need a sensationalized headline to sell music or to bring attention to my music. It's the music and it's always been about the music.
It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really.
I'm not a great band member; I'm more of a band leader.
I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.
I'm glad I was never in a band.